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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.5.2.10
Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Artifact)

Authors: Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, and David Lo

Published in: DARTS, Volume 5, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)

Abstract
The program transformation tool Coccinelle is designed for making changes that is required in many locations within a software project. It has been shown to be useful for C code and has been been adopted for use in the Linux kernel by many developers. Over 6000 commits mentioning the use of Coccinelle have been made in the Linux kernel. Our artifact, Coccinelle4J, is an extension to Coccinelle in order for it to apply program transformations to Java source code. This artifact accompanies our experience report "Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation", in which we show a case study of applying code transformations to upgrade usage of deprecated Android API methods to replacement API methods.
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Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, and David Lo. Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 10:1-10:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@Article{kang_et_al:DARTS.5.2.10,
  author =	{Kang, Hong Jin and Thung, Ferdian and Lawall, Julia and Muller, Gilles and Jiang, Lingxiao and Lo, David},
  title =	{{Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation}},
  pages =	{10:1--10:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{5},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Kang, Hong Jin and Thung, Ferdian and Lawall, Julia and Muller, Gilles and Jiang, Lingxiao and Lo, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.5.2.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-107875},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.5.2.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Java, semantic patches, automatic program transformation}
}
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Experience Report
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22
Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Experience Report)

Authors: Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, and David Lo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 134, 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)

Abstract
Developing software often requires code changes that are widespread and applied to multiple locations. There are tools for Java that allow developers to specify patterns for program matching and source-to-source transformation. However, to our knowledge, none allows for transforming code based on its control-flow context. We prototype Coccinelle4J, an extension to Coccinelle, which is a program transformation tool designed for widespread changes in C code, in order to work on Java source code. We adapt Coccinelle to be able to apply scripts written in the Semantic Patch Language (SmPL), a language provided by Coccinelle, to Java source files. As a case study, we demonstrate the utility of Coccinelle4J with the task of API migration. We show 6 semantic patches to migrate from deprecated Android API methods on several open source Android projects. We describe how SmPL can be used to express several API migrations and justify several of our design decisions.
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Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, and David Lo. Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Experience Report). In 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 134, pp. 22:1-22:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{kang_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22,
  author =	{Kang, Hong Jin and Thung, Ferdian and Lawall, Julia and Muller, Gilles and Jiang, Lingxiao and Lo, David},
  title =	{{Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation}},
  booktitle =	{33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-111-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{134},
  editor =	{Donaldson, Alastair F.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108140},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program transformation, Java}
}
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